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Página 45A severe panic broke out in the Savoyard capital, Chambery, in 1577, when
special vigilante patrols were permitted to shoot suspects on sight.8 Another
panic involving engraisseurs erupted on the north shore of Lake Geneva, at
Vevey, ...

Página 47Judicial records from these years are filled with examinations and executions of engraisseurs, all of them technically in league with the Devil, although often
lacking most of the other ordinary paraphernalia of witchcraft. The toll was high.

Página 48of Genevan witchcraft, and the year when a respected local physician, J.-A.
Sarasin, published a treatise proving irrefutably that plague was transmitted by
poisoners and engraisseurs — nearly a hundred people were tried for this crime,
and ...